Joy
Presented by TAHI Festival
A brand new collection of monologues by six female and non-binary playwrights around the theme of Joy.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to illness we have had to make the hard call to CANCEL out final showing of Joy on 10 September. Sally, TAHI Festival and the Joy team would like to thank you for your support and any ticket holders for the 10 September show will be contacted by BATS Theatre for a refund.
When: 8:30pm, 8–9 September
10 September: CANCELLED
Where: The Stage, BATS Theatre, 1 Kent Tce (wheelchair accessible)
Cost: $22 · $20 · $18
Performed by: Stevie Hancox-Monk, Mel Dodge and Nina Dekkers-Reihana
Directed by: Sally Richards and Kerryn Palmer
Designer and operator: Bekky Boyce
Sound Composition: Matt Parkinson
Dunno Direction support by: Stevie Greeks and Nī Dekkers-Reihana
Stage Managed by: Kate Anderson
Production Managed by: Fay Van Der Meulen
Script Dramaturgy by: Sameena Zehra
Joy - "a feeling of great pleasure and happiness" - is what the world needs more of right now. But joy is a shifting creature - what constitutes joy? How do you define something so nebulous?
Our Joy is a collection of five new monologues by female and non-binary writers especially commissioned for TAHI 2022.
Writers Henrietta Bollinger, Mel Dodge, Stevie Greeks, Indigo Paul and Elspeth Tilley explore what joy means to them through the highs and lows of menopause, childbirth, freedom, whānau, whakapapa, and acceptance.
Joy follows the success of TAHI's collection of monologues Batch and Whānau.
“The mark of a successful theatre production is that you’re left wanting more. I could have happily watched this group of talented actors telling their uniquely Kiwi stories with genuine pathos and humour well into the night.” – Tanya Piejus, Regional News (Whānau, 2021)
The Stage is wheelchair accessible. For full details about accessibility at BATS, go to bats.co.nz/about-bats/accessibility
TAHI Festival wishes to sincerely thank Ren Lunicke for their support of Joy.
“A rich and profound experience.”
Whānau, John Smythe, Theatreview, 2021
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Image Description: Actor Stevie Hancox-Monk crouches front-on facing the camera, they are mid laughter with their mouth open wide. They are wearing a checkered shirt in shades of brown and green, a gold chain can be seen poking out from under the shirt.